Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-05-07
NEWS NOTES.

A Mormon elder with three wives and
eight children was arrested at Chicago and
held under oigany proceedings.
Cleveland o., has new murder mystery
almost q duplicate Of one committed at al
most the same spot sixteen year ago.
Bob Ingersou in a card denies eertai n
charges recently made against him BY Gen.
George A Sheridan in his lecture on ''The
Modern Pagan"
The interstate commerce commission has
temporarily suspended section No (long
and short haul) Of the act TO regulate com
nerce in the case OF the transcOntinental
lines
A new Asiatie railway Is being surveyed
toward British India
The German commission at Metz officially
reports that the arrest of the French com
missary was made on German SOIL
A difference OF opinion exists among
ness Of Mr.. GOschen's budget recommends
tons
The postm master general Of Canada proposes
70 enter into negotiations with the United
States for the establishment Of a parcel post
between the countries
E T. NJ. Simmons, manager Of the Hotel
del Monte, Monterey, Cal, which was des-
troyed BY IRE April lat, has been arrested on
the charge Of arson
The three hundred and twenty-third
anniversary of Shakespeare's birth was
celebrated by the Cleveland press club Satur-
day night by an elaborate banquet
Queen KapioIaui Of the Hawaiian island
has teleeraphed from San Francisco that she
will accept the hospitality of the city of
Boston, rendered her through the mayor.
, An east bound freight train on the Atlantic
q Pacific railway went through a partially
burned bridge west of Albuquerque. \. M,
Friday night. Fifteen cars were wrecked
ana the fireman mangled beyond recOgni-
ion.
San Francisco merchants are preparing
70 take steps TO obtain an increase in the
subsidy for carrying the Australian mails.
CanOn WiIburforce of England and his
wife aud daughter have reached Ne = York
Tor holiday Of SIX weeks IN America.
The English newspapers in st Lonis have
voluntarily advanced the price of compost
tion cents per LOCO ems, making the rate
43 cents.
The miners and Iaborers of the ShamoZin
valley, Pennsylvania, have iecideitO strike,
May for a 10 per cent advance in wages
IL is said that p. L.. Barnum, for with
drawing his suit against the Grand trunk
road for 100000 for the loss of Jumbo, was
given 5000 in cash and an equal amount
in transportation.
The peoples gas-Iight company of Chicago
has accepted the contract for lighting the
streets IN the West division at 81 % per
thousand feet.
About eight hundred settlers are being
ousted by troops flom the Grow Creek
reservation. band of painted and armed
Indians is said TO be following the soldiers
and celebrating the evictions.
S. d. Tyler, of Waukesha, cashier for a
coal firm at Milwaukee. is said TO have made
good a deficit of over 5000, on condition
that he be not prosecuted.
Six persons were seriously injured at Har-
per's Ferry while tampering with a shell
HTaHT had
1t Is believed that Sidney Dillon has secur-
ed control Of the Wheeling and Lake Erie |
road, and viii extend it to Wheeling and /
Cleveland.
Joliet dispatch announces the purchase |
of a tract Of twenty-five acres in he suburbs i
OF that city on which to erect depOts, eleYa- |
tors and other facilities to tap the eastern /
trunk lines and cut on the transfer business /
OF Chicago
G. NJ. Thompson, grain-dealer at three /
points IN California has failed, with debts Of /
$4,000.
Enterprise, a 3 year-old chestnut colt, won |
the Two thousand Guinea stakes at New 4
market, and placed himself in the lead for /
the Derby.
The authorities of Michigan university are /
preparing for an elaborate celebration Of its /
semi centennial anniversary.
Peter Meyer, residing a few miles north |
Of Madison, Wisconsin has within few
days lost seven children by scarlet fever.
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The Wabesh round-house at Des Moines \
containing thirteen engines, vas burned. /
IhelOss may prove to be $l25,O
A YOung banker in Cleveland, named .
Stoll, has been arrested for the murder
Of Maggie Mccarthy, a servant, who
gave up her life rather than her honor.
The officers of the Illinois Central road
recently placed a pile-driyer at work in
Lake Michigan, opposite Fifteenth street,
about one hundred yards on shore. 'Ih5
police guard gave orders to leave the place. |
IL was soon learned at the city hall that IN
der the original right of way the company
may complete It's filling to the south line of
lot p, whore work was going on. The space
IN which the railway can operate Is to be
staked on by the city authorides-
Large subscriptions have been received for
a tgenty-year 355 per cent, bond Of the city
Of st. Louis, to take the place of 81, 33O, 600
per cents about to mature.
The schooner Flying Scud was recently
lost on the coast Of Alaska, with the owner,
captain, and fourteen native hunters.
Peter Gebel, the oldest German resident
of Chicago dating back TO 1886, lies dagger
ously i'll at the residence Of his sOn-in-laW,
Police Lieutenant Schumacher. He assist
ed in building the first court-hOuse IN the
city
A membership in the Chicago board of
trade changed hands at $1,000.
The marriage of Father Vaudry in charge
OF a Catholic church at Baton Rouge has
been followed by adivorcs to the wife on the
ground of abandonment
The resident magistrate at Cork has re-
ceived orders TO report all the ciroums-
tancss connected with the departure of
William D Brien for Canada to enter upon a
campaign against the marquis of LansdOWne.
FIRE in a factory building at Nos. 223 to
22I Canal street New York caused a loss